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TABLE OF CONTENT
Contents PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................................................... I
ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................................... V
1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1
3. CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................... 13
4. REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................... 14
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly, I would like to thanks almighty God for the prevision of his potency and solidarity in the
course of my work. Secondly, I would like to give my special and heart full thanks to my
advisor, Yemegnu.Y (MSC) for his valuable comment, constructive suggestion, unlimited advice
to success my work and positive approach from beginning up to accomplishment of senior
seminar.
Finally, deepest special thanks to Arba Minch University Kulfo campus for its unlimited
computer access starting up to ending and its support and I would also like to appreciation for
department of natural resource management for such amazing and facilitating condition.
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LIST OF ABBREVIATION AND ACRONYMS
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ABSTRACT
Forest is a combination of many larger and smaller tree species that is used as a home of
many wild animals .Sustainable forest management is the process of managing and conserving
forests to accomplish one or more clearly specified objectives of management with regard
increasing continuous production and without undue reduction of its inherent value and future
productivity and with effective physical and social environment protection. Forest is a
combination of many larger and smaller tree species that is used as a home of many wild
animals. And also a climatic condition (temperature, rainfall and humidity) can determine the
type of plant that can grow in the area. Management practices need local people’s participation
in each specific ecosystem plan in order to avoid over exploitation and forest degradation. The
main important challenging factors which affect sustainable forest management is exclude of
local communities from taking active part and involvement in management process .government
has good participation in the forest management. But in Ethiopia , PFM approach and NGO’s
who can play a great role to improve or increase the forest resource by creating awareness for
the local people, how they use the forest resource and how they increase their agricultural
production in the small farm land rather them destroying forest land
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Tropical forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate all over the world. More than 5 million
hectors per year are being converted to poorly manage secondary vegetation (CIFOR, 2001). To
overcome the problem or at least to minimize the development actors mainly NGO, s introduces
the concept of PFM in Ethiopia. The Participation of the general public in both rural and urban
areas in tree planting and conservation of the natural forests is very important to achieve the
proposal strategies like development plan. This can be done though participatory process where
farmers and local people are involved in planning, design and implementation of the
management plan. This exchange of information and creation of partnership will help build
confidence and provide assurance that the programs are relevant to their needs and ensure that
they have a sense of responsibility (Irwon, 2004).
In Ethiopia renewable natural resource degradation has become the most serious and acute
problem. During the second half of the 20th century, the country has experienced severe
deforestations and degradation (UNDP, 2012). According to Weinberg (2010), between 1955
and1979, over 77 % of the country’s forested area disappeared and it continues to lose 8 % of its
remaining forests annually. Her review clearly stated that natural forests and woodlands covered
in Ethiopia were around 15.1 million ha in 1990 however, due to different factors the forest area
declined to 13.7 million ha after ten years in 2000. Another study revealed that in 2005, the
forest cover had further declined and was estimated to cover 13.0 million ha (FAO, 2010 cited in
Million, 2011).
This statistic showed that Ethiopia lost over 2 million ha of her forests, with an annual average
loss of 140,000 ha in fifteen years. According to the same reference data indicated currently, the
area is estimated at 12.3 million ha, with 11.9 % of the total land area. The review concludes
that, the remaining closed natural high forests are 4.12 million ha or 3.37%of land area. In
Ethiopia the fast growing population that has led to increasing need for farmland, wood for
construction, unsustainable harvest for timber and fuel wood extraction, high urbanization rate,
road construction and over grazing is taken as the major causes of environmental degradation
and forest depletion (Tola.2005 & UNDP, 2012).
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Obviously, the country has an agrarian economy with 83% of the population is living in
rural areas, concentrated in the highlands, and depends on subsistence agriculture (Mo FED,
2013). Since the mid-1970s the management of forest resources in Ethiopia was mainly carried
out as state and community forestry programs. These non-participatory approaches failed to
reduce tree felling and clearing, especially in Protected National Forest Priority Areas (FARM
Africa, 2000).
Further this problem was beyond the control of the state therefore, the ultimate solution for
this severe problem will be encouraging of local people to manage and conserve their resources
since they live with forests and they are primary users of forest products (FAO, 2010).
According to Yemiru (2011), in Ethiopia there is a growing understanding that deforestation and
land degradation will further exacerbate poverty, which brings natural resource conservation to
the fore front of rural development initiatives. Terefe (2003) on his side stated that community
participation is very crucial, to overcome the rate of deforestation.
Participatory Forest Management (PFM) is a new paradigm system of forest management which
is adopted and implemented in order to fulfill the interest, respecting of traditional users, and
bottom-up approach which encourage a sense of belongingness to the rural people in general and
landless rural youth in particular (winberg,2010). She further explained that this new paradigm
shift was mainly introduced as a complementary mechanism which safeguards forests.
According to FARM Africa (2000) and UNDP (2012),
the government also created spaces for NGOs engagement in sustainable forest
management, through participatory forest management (PFM) practices and a number of NGOs
and bilateral programs launched PFM in the mid-1990s. PFM was first introduced to Ethiopia
few years ago but the approach is expanding to cover more and more hectares of forest across the
country (UNDP, 2012). PFM in Ethiopia is well adopted recently including regional
governments and at every woreda offices (Weinberg, 2010).
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1.2 Objectives
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Forest is a combination of many larger and smaller tree species that is used as a home of many
wild animals. And also a climatic condition (temperature, rainfall and humidity) can determine
the type of plant that can grow in the area. The type of plants and climate in turn determine type
of animals that can in habit in the area. The same thing is that soil type can determine the type of
plant grow in the area as well as animals in habited in the forest (Paul F, 2000)
According to widely used United Nations food and agriculture organization definition, forest
covered four billion hectares (15 million square miles) or approximately 30 percent of the
world’s land area in 2006. Forest is the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of earth, and is distributed
across the globe. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of earth’s biosphere,
and contain 80% of the earth’s plant biomass. Forest provides ecosystem service to human and
serves as tourism attraction. Trees and forest influence both their immediate sourcing and the
ability of larger environment, and as result have several important links to food security (FAO,
1999).
It is argued that the forest can significantly reduce soil erosion, restore soil productivity
through following system and represent store house of genetic diversity, hence boost production.
It is stated in (FAO, 1999) forest both at macro level help the stable environment conditions on
which sustainable food production depends. To ensure this fact that addressing properly the gaps
already existed with regard to community participation in forest development remains crucial
especially in developing countries characterized by steadily population (Eilas, 2004).
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Traditionally there are people who entirely used to depend on forest for livelihood particularly in
virgin remnant forest of south western parts of Ethiopia. Forests contributes world where local
people entirely depend on forest (FAO, 1999).
Therefore, Management practices need local people’s participation in each specific ecosystem
plan in order to avoid over exploitation and forest degradation. Generally sustainable forest
management provides a multidimensional benefits and values to the users themselves, and to the
living organisms at large at the global level. Based on the idea of FAO (2008), Sustainable
managed forests provide vital services to both nature and society).
According to UNDP (2012), the term forest sustainability, sustainable forestry, and
sustainable forest management are interchangeable terms which closely linked to the definition
of sustainable development. The department further explained that these terms generally include
or imply the following elements: the continued existence and use of forests to meet human
physical, economic, and social needs; the desire to preserve the health of forest ecosystems in
perpetuity; and the ethical choice of preserving options for future generations while meeting the
needs of the present. To achieve the sense of sustainability concept in forest management, it is
indispensable encouraging and creating social responsibilities of Sustainable Forest Managers.
Experiences revealed that to bring sustainable forest management programs there must put
priorities which local people at the center and based on local, regional and national level. For
instance due to discussing logging systems and annual coupes with local farmers is not a
traditional approach to forest management in many of the world’s rainforests, forests have
vanished where their needs and desires have not been considered. This all indicate that
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sustainable based forest management practice is a powerful system of conservation which based
on decentralization, participation, interest and willingness of local people that evolved not only
ensure conserving of biodiversity but also have a good implication of in equitable distribution of
access to and benefits from them. Therefore, SFM is the core solution to the continuous
destruction of forests which causes much misery to the poor.
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PFM project have the overall objective of promoting sustainable management and
conservation of forest ecosystem and improving of the livelihoods of people living in or around
these resources (IFMP, 2002, PFMP, 2006).PFM is the system of management where by a
community forest is managed by the members of the local community, and not by some external,
remote governing body (Gobeze et al., 2009).
According to him development is unthinkable without the participation of the native people
and People should be placed first in development projects if their development is what the
activity plan aims to promote and the real aim of development should be to improve and change
the livelihood of local people. Directly and indirectly a given development project particularly
forestry program affects the life of indigenous people; since they live with forests and they are
primary users of forest products (Wily, 2002, & FAO, 2010).This reviewing stated that living
near or within forestlands, local communities are presumed to have greater knowledge and
understanding of the resources and easily identify their constraints and opportunities. Then
“Who can manage forests better than those living within or beside them?” (Agrawal and
Angelson, 2009: 2010).
Natural resource management theory and practice has been well adopted significantly in
recent decades. According to Wood (2008), historically showed in most countries natural
resources management had been geared towards in the hands of national or state governments,
with little recognition of the people living closest to the resource. Currently there are some basic
facts which indicate that Community Forest User Groups are also generating financial resources,
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which are used mainly in better forest management and community development activities
(Kanel and Dahal, 2008).
Generally, community forest is highly threatened but provides numerous services like
balancing the environment; serve as human consumption and habitat for animal species.
According to Agrawal and Angelsen (2009), Community forest management (CFM)
encompasses two essential things: the resource (forests) and a class of manager (communities).
In addition to this the term CFM broadly known in different specific forms of names throughout
the world like: participatory forest management (PFM), joint forest management (JFM), forest
community management and community-based forest management (CBFM). Though
Participatory forest management known in various forms, it has two clear key essential goals that
are conserve bio diversity and improve rural livelihood.
Osumba (2011) advocated that the main objective of PFM was to devolve forest
governance to the local levels. For instance, the act proposed the following measures to enhance
community participation in forest conservation: encouraging sustainable use of forest resources;
supporting the establishment of community forests associations through which communities’ can
be able to participate in the conservation and management of forests; and Protecting and
encouraging the traditional interests of local communities customarily resident within and around
forests Purity.
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On the other hand, the incentive for users to invest in collective management is likely to be
greater if the resources are capable of meeting a sustainable part of users’ needs, and if these
benefits can be obtained rapidly and regularly. By the same taken, situations involving forest that
are producing already are likely to provide a greater incentive to local collective management
then are woodlots that will produce only after several years. Therefore, the tendency to allocate
degraded forest or scrubland for collective management in many programmers has probably
often weakened the incentive for users to participate (Tirhas, 2009)
In most parts of Ethiopia, rural households are depending on subsistence agriculture; use forest
products as fuel, fodder, and building materials. In poor rural comminutes the continued need for
family labor supports high fertility and rapid population growth that places additional pressure
on natural vegetation (De Souza et al., 2003). Similarly, Medhin (2002), in his report titled with
„Sustainable Development in Ethiopia,‟ described that unchecked population growth, coupled
with overgrazing, has brought about the encroachments of the marginal areas as steep slopes and
ecologically precious lands to meet the need for wood, fuel and grazing. The subsequent
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removals of natural vegetation and improper land use practices have resulted in the degradation
of the land and eventually conversion into wastelands.
2.6.2 Overgrazing
In the highlands, the expansion of grazing land beyond the land’s carrying capacity occurs at
the expense of the remaining natural vegetation and further land degradation. The scarcity of
grazing land and livestock feed causes the wide spread use of natural vegetation particularly
forests to feed livestock (MoARD, 2007). Livestock pressure and stock management (mainly
based on free grazing system) are major sources of land degradation .Only 25 percent of
Ethiopia’s high livestock population graze in the rangelands, where as 75% graze in the
highlands (EPA,2010).
Overgrazing destroys the most palatable and useful species in the plant mixture and reduces
the density of the plant cover, thereby increasing the erosion hazard and reducing the nutritive
value and the carrying capacity of the land. In Ethiopia, overgrazing is mainly due to keeping
large number of cattle in forest and wood lands. The consequences of overgrazing have been
land degradation, soil erosion, soil compaction as well as reduced species diversity and density
of the vegetation (Chamshama and Nduwayezu, 2002). Heavily grazed plots result in poor
quality of physical and even chemical properties of soils. High soil compaction is clearly
observed in heavily grazed plots than less grazed plots (Girma, 2001).
2.6.3 Deforestation
Deforestation is clearing or removal of trees, shrubs, and forage plant from an area wood land or
forest for many reasons usually commercial. It is the major issue in Ethiopia since; it’s one of
main cause of prevailing land degradation. The cutting is common occurrence which has taking
place of centuries. Hundreds of years back in history some part country which are suffering from
condition caused by land degradation (Esdoman, 2006). Deforestation is the continuous cutting
down of forests without any replacement activities which completely conversion of forest area to
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another land use or the long-term reduction of the tree canopy cover due to proximate and
underline factors (FAO, 2011).
Deforestation serves as a proxy for the loss of critical ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as
increased risk of soil erosion in steeply sloped areas (Dasgupta et al., 2004). The current
deforestation rate particularly in fewer developing countries is the worry of world Community
because its impact is dangerous to all countries (Terefe, 2003).This reviewing shows that the
degree of forest depletion has become critical in many African countries including Ethiopia
(Gaffar et al., 1998:10 cited in Terefe, 2003).
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3. CONCLUSION
Generally, This review clearly stated that there are different forest management practices
in Ethiopia. This review conclude that the management practices of Ethiopian forest is
traditional and influenced by age, gender, socio- economic status and religious background. The
livelihood of Ethiopia depends on forest products such as timber, firewood, grass and
agricultural products, many of the information stated the importance of forest for their livelihood
by declaring that forest is everything for them. This review also summarize that the communities
in Ethiopia have strong relation with forest that helps them to develop their own conception of
forest management. In Ethiopia Forests are affected by different human activities like,
overgrazing, deforestation, population growth …….etc.
Generally, government has good participation in the forest management. But in Ethiopia ,
PFM approach and NGO’s who can play a great role to improve or increase the forest resource
by creating awareness for the local people, how they use the forest resource and how they
increase their agricultural production in the small farm land rather them destroying forest land.
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